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	<title>Ben Dobson &#124; Photography blog &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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		<title>movember is upon us</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/10/28/movember-is-upon-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The manliest thing it is possible to do of all manly things (of which there are many) is to chop up wood with a chainsaw. Right? WRONG!!! The actual manliest thing it is possible to do is to chop up wood with a chainsaw, whilst sporting a super manly amazing moustache. All men with moustaches [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The manliest thing it is possible to do of all manly things (of which there are many) is to chop up wood with a chainsaw.</p>
<p>Right?</p>
<p><b>WRONG!!!</b></p>
<p>The actual manliest thing it is possible to do is to chop up wood with a chainsaw,  <i>whilst sporting a super manly amazing moustache</i>.   All men with moustaches are automatically superior and more handsome and manlier than all men who do not have moustaches.   These facts are indisputable.    So I find that I must partcipate&#8230;.</p>
<p><img src="/snaps/amazing_moustache_image.jpg" alt="Amazing Moustache Image" /></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;<br />
I will document my progress as I and my intrepid chums from work go forth into the world of lip hair awesomeness.    If you wish to support my moustache growing efforts financially,  you should do so <a href="http://mobro.co/do330">by giving money over here</a> and by doing so you will be supporting not only some very worthy men&#8217;s health charities to do with things like cancer and that,  but also you&#8217;ll be showing that you support moustaches..  And that matters.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t donate,  think about what you are saying to the world?   You&#8217;re saying that you like cancer &#8211; you&#8217;re actually supporting cancer,  rather than supporting research into the fight against cancer.    But oh so much worse than that &#8211; you&#8217;re saying that moustaches don&#8217;t look good.    Is that the message you want to send to the world?  Is it?   </p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Wilf redux</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/10/19/wilf-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOOK AT THIS, it&#8217;s Wilf the Dog!!! OMG!11!1 He iz so small! HIS SKIN DOESN&#8217;T EVEN FIT HIM!!!11!1 That was several years ago &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t look like that any more&#8230;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOOK AT THIS,  it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/tag/wilf-the-dog">Wilf the Dog</a>!!!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/littlewiddles.jpg" alt="Baby Widdles" /></p>
<p>OMG!11!1   He iz so small!  HIS SKIN DOESN&#8217;T EVEN FIT HIM!!!11!1</p>
<p>That was several years ago &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t look like that any more&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>kenya redux</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/10/02/kenya-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just going over some old photos from our Kenya Safari. Amazing memories, almost can&#8217;t believe I was there. There is a strong possibility more photos will follow&#8230;..]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just going over some old photos from our Kenya Safari.    Amazing memories, almost can&#8217;t believe I was there. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/safari_kenya/geeraff.jpg" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/safari_kenya/nomnom.jpg" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/safari_kenya/elleyphants.jpg" /></p>
<p>There is a strong possibility more photos will follow&#8230;..  </p>
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		<title>tom tom</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/10/01/tom-tom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hey look! yummy tomatoes from my garden You can&#8217;t have them. They&#8217;re mine.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hey look!   yummy tomatoes from my garden</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/d200/p-sharan/toms_toms.jpg" /></p>
<p>You can&#8217;t have them.  They&#8217;re mine.</p>
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		<title>re-kindling my love</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/07/27/re-kindling-my-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I just sent this: Dear Amazonz, I have personally sat on many books without materially altering my subsequent reading experience, so you can imagine my shock and distress when my Amazon Kindle broke the very first time I sat on it. I have watched your recent television campaign where you state that &#8220;the book [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I just sent this:</p>
<p>Dear Amazonz,</p>
<p>I have personally sat on many books without materially altering my subsequent reading experience, so you can imagine my shock and distress when my Amazon Kindle broke the very first time I sat on it.</p>
<p>I have watched your recent television campaign where you state that &#8220;the book lives&#8221;.  It is quite plain for anyone to see that this is quite simply not the case.   The book is dead.    I find myself now clutching a primitive paper based entertainment item known also as a &#8220;book&#8221;,  which frankly makes me feel like some sort of cave man.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s worse is that the death of the kindle occurred on the first day of my holiday leaving me with nothing to read for six whole days.   I almost died of boredom. I feel that Amazon is at least partly to blame for this.</p>
<p>Please assist at your earliest convenience.</p>
<p>Yours,  Kindle-lessly.</p>
<p>Ben Dobson</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/kindle.jpg" alt="The book lives" /></p>
<p>We&#8217;ll see what happens next.    </p>
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		<title>more wilf</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/07/12/more-wilf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilf&#8217;s been out and about again! I want whatever it is that is on that plate. I don&#8217;t care what it is, I want it. I want that lolly. Mmmmmmmmm lolly.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wilf&#8217;s been out and about again!  </p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilf_view4.jpg" alt="Wilf's view" /><br />
I want whatever it is that is on that plate.  I don&#8217;t care what it is,  I want it.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilfview_5.jpg" alt="Wilf's view" /><br />
I want that lolly.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilf_lolly.jpg" alt="Wilf's lolly" /><br />
Mmmmmmmmm lolly.</p>
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		<title>wilf&#8217;s eye view</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2011/06/22/wilfs-eye-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wilf the Dog has a mental attitude which fluctuates between wild fear and wild fearlessness. As a result he&#8217;s always an interesting companion. I decided to try to capture some of his moments, and his thoughts. My grand plan is to make this into a series but in reality I&#8217;ll probably forget all about it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/tag/wilf-the-dog/">Wilf the Dog</a> has a mental attitude which fluctuates between wild fear and wild fearlessness.    As a result he&#8217;s always an interesting companion.  I decided to try to capture some of his moments,  and his thoughts.  My grand plan is to make this into a series but in reality I&#8217;ll probably forget all about it within moments.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilf_view1.jpg" alt="Wilf and the chair" /><br />
<i>&#8220;Is that chair looking at me?  I think it is?  That chair better not be looking at me.   I&#8217;ll bite that chair,  then it will learn not to look at me.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilf_view2.jpg" alt="Wilf and the pigeon" /><br />
<i>Is that pigeon looking at me?  I think it is.   It better not be,  or I&#8217;ll bloody eat it.   Yummy pigeon.   Come here pigeon&#8230;.&#8221;</i></p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/iphone/wilf_view3.jpg" alt="Wilf and Goran Ivanisevic" /><br />
<i>&#8220;Is Goran Ivanisevic looking at me?   He better not be.  I&#8217;ll eat his tennis bat if he&#8217;s looking at me.  Yummy tennis bat.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>As you can see Wilf knows his own mind.</p>
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		<title>wells wells wells,  what &#8216;ave we &#8216;ere then?</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2010/09/24/wells-wells-wells-what-ave-we-ere-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So clearly there must be a reason that I haven&#8217;t put anything on my exciting enthralling website blog pages for absolutely ages &#8211; right? Wrong! I just can&#8217;t be bothered. That was a lie &#8211; the real reason is that I&#8217;m so busy doing important things that I haven&#8217;t found the time &#8211; so there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So clearly there must be a reason that I haven&#8217;t put anything on my exciting enthralling website blog pages for absolutely ages &#8211; right?</p>
<p>Wrong!  I just can&#8217;t be bothered.</p>
<p>That was a lie &#8211; the real reason is that I&#8217;m so busy doing important things that I haven&#8217;t found the time &#8211; so there you go.    I have been doing loads of stuff at home though so there will very soon be a deluge of changing rooms grand designs style posts where I show photos of things in and outside my house.</p>
<p>For now,  here is a photo from Wells where I went a while back &#8211; wooo! Wells!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/leica/wells.jpg" alt="Wells" /></p>
<p>By the way when I said &#8220;busy doing important things&#8221; just now,  I meant watching telly and reading books and stuff like that.   Important stuff.</p>
<p>Catch you later homies.</p>
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		<title>statue of liberted</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2010/04/23/statue-of-liberted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time in the distant past I took a photo of TransporTed and it was good. Then he got lost and Mrs TransporTed when looking for him &#8211; so I took her to New York so she could have a look around &#8211; she didn&#8217;t find him though. She&#8217;s off Scuba diving next, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once upon a time in the distant past I took a photo of <a href="http://www.stevecarter.com/transported/ted1.htm">TransporTed</a> and it was good.    </p>
<p>Then he got lost and Mrs TransporTed when looking for him &#8211; so I took her to New York so she could have a look around &#8211; she didn&#8217;t find him though.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/d200/StatueTed.jpg" alt="Mrs Ted salutes to Liberty" /></p>
<p>She&#8217;s off Scuba diving next,  I wish I had her life!   Anyway if none of this makes sense,  go and <a href="http://www.stevecarter.com/transported/ted1.htm">Visit TransporTed&#8217;s website</a>  to find out more.</p>
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		<title>as i was going to st ives</title>
		<link>http://www.bendobson.co.uk/2010/02/25/as-i-was-going-to-st-ives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;As I was going to St Ives &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;I met a man with seven wives And I said to him, I say old chap, polygamy is not only illegal but also morally reprehensible! More to the point how on earth does a fellow deal with seven wives, one is surely enough? And why have you got [...]]]></description>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As I was going to St Ives<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I met a man with seven wives<br />
</i></p>
<p>
And I said to him,  I say old chap,  polygamy is not only illegal but also morally reprehensible!    More to the point  how on earth does a fellow deal with seven wives,  one is surely enough?  And why have you got so many cats?</p>
<p>
Right so anyway as I mentioned before I&#8217;ve just moved house and this very morning I finished laying a new slate floor in our kitchen which has turned out right nice if I do say so myself. </p>
<p>
Our boiler broke down less than a week after moving in so I decided on a particularly cold night I&#8217;d light a fire in the living room.  I broke up some kindling and collected some logs from the log shed and set about making fire,  the third manliest thing there is to do after using a chainsaw,  or an angle grinder.</p>
<p>
I arranged the kindling over some bundled up paper and put a match to it,  hey presto,  fire!   Oh wait,  why is all the smoke coming into the room &#8211; better check the chimney,  oh, what&#8217;s this massive bit of foam blocking the chimney?   </p>
<p>
Cue me stamping all over the fire to put it out before smoking out the entire building.   What a plonker.</p>
<p>
Quite literally every room in the house needs some work of a lesser or greater amount,  so I&#8217;ve become DIY man for the next few months.   Naturally in light of all this DIY work and money that needs to be spent I went out this weekend and bought new gadgets.   Why wouldn&#8217;t I?</p>
<p>
<img src="http://www.bendobson.co.uk/snaps/d200/westbrook/gadgets.jpg" alt="Mmmmm audio gadgetry" /></p>
<p>
For anyone that cares this is a Cambridge Audio Topaz amplifier,  along with an iPod dock and some Q Acoustics 1020i speakers.   I also have a Cambridge Audio Azur DAB tuner and a Technics SL1200 running through a NAD PP2 Phono Preamplifier.   Christ that was exciting to write,  I need to go for a lie down.</p>
<p>
I actually am going to St. Ives later this year as well!  Crazy times.</p>
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